Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity

by Marine Conservation Biology Institute

Book Overview

Humans are terrestrial animals, and our capacity to see and understand the importance and vulnerability of life in the sea has trailed our growing ability to harm it. While conservation biologists are working to address environmental problems humans have created on land, loss of marine biodiversity, including extinctions and habitat degradation, has received much less attention. At the same time, marine sciences such as oceanography and fisheries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559636629
• ISBN13: 9781559636629
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.1" x 10.0"